Where does Spectra’s Westcoast Energy pipeline go at the U.S. border?

Spectra’s pipeline upgrade
British Columbia farmers are countersuing:
what happens where it ends at Sumas, Washington?
Hint: who does Spectra Energy’s Sabal Trail Pipeline connect to?
And if that connecting pipeline in Washington State can go down I-5,
why can’t Sabal Trail go down I-75?

Williams Company’s
Washington Expansion Project (WEP) starts
right there in Sumas, WA, planning a 36-inch pipeline 140 miles down the I-5 corridor right past Seattle, Tacoma, and Olympia, crosses the Columbia River,
and looks like it’s headed for Portland or parts much much farther away.
It is to include five new or upgraded
compressor stations, such as one at Sumner, WA,
12 miles from Tacoma.

Now that Oregon LNG admits it wants to export gas, how will it get massive
volumes of gas to Warrenton, OR? Williams Pipeline Company disclosed that
it will build 136 miles of new, high-pressure pipeline across the State
of Washington in order to feed North American gas to Asia via Oregon
LNGâ€™s proposed export terminal. Segments of the new LNG pipeline would
run from Washingtonâ€™s northern border south to Woodland, Washington,
threatening hundreds of landowners and communities along the way.
See full map here.

Oregon LNG failed to include the huge new proposal in its
application to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). In a
July 16, 2012
letter, FERC told Oregon LNG that FERC will evaluate
the Williams Pipeline in Washington in the same Environmental Impact
Statement as the LNG export terminal. This makes sense. FERC is not
allowing Oregon LNG to piecemeal the project. Instead FERC’s review
will include the impacts of a huge new pipeline on family farms,
forests, and streams in Washington.

See the
Oregonian’s coverage of this important issue. Oregon
residents successfully fought off the LNG pipeline proposal through
the Willamette Valley. Now, Oregon LNG has set its sights on
Washington.

Pacific NW Consumers Will Pay More for Energy if LNG Exports Go
Forward

The combined Oregon LNG/Williams Expansion projects will
force Pacific Northwest gas customers to outbid high-priced Asian
markets for North American natural gas. The project will increase
prices for every NW resident. Paul Cicio, President of the
Industrial Energy Consumers of America, stated, “In the end,
it’s going to be every homeowner, every farmer buying fertilizer,
and every manufacturer trying to create jobs who is going to be hurt
by this.”

And it’s the same Williams-Spectra LNG export boondoggle in
the Pacific Northwest we’re fighting here in the Atlantic and Gulf
southeast: 36-inch pipelines gouging through the countryside
to get to the sea for export.

So, where’s the option to run down I-75?
At least that could go over our rivers on the highway bridges instead of
gouging under them.

Was that the hastily-rejected
Hillabee Route?
Was it abandoned because of population density?
How can that be, if WEP runs down I-5 right by much bigger population centers?
And if Sabal Trail is too dangerous for cities, why is it not too
dangerous for our fields, forests, wetlands, and rivers?